Act in the valley so that you need not fear those who stand on the hill. ~Danish Proverb
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When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched, you begin to discover that it's bottomless, that it doesn't have any resolution, that this heart is huge, vast, and limitless. You begin to discover how much warmth and gentleness is there, as well as how much space. ~Pema Chodron
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Those who play with cats must expect to be scratched. ~Proverb
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Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors. ~African Proverb
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People count up the faults of those who keep them waiting. ~French Proverb
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Good things come to those who wait. ~English Proverb
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I had my nearest and most intimate glimpses of the presence of my Lord in those dread moments when musket, club or spear was being levelled at my life. ~John Gibson Paton
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The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything to gain. ~Chinese Proverb
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Official education was telling people almost nothing of the nature of all those things on the seashores, and in the redwood forests, in the deserts and in the plains. ~Gregory Bateson
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Fresh air impoverishes the doctor. ~Danish Proverb
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Could it be that all those reports coming from our own intelligence that Bush ignored was right all along? Could it be that the UN was right all along? ~Peter Schuyler
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People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it. ~Chinese Proverb
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Luck seeks those who flee and flees those who seek it. ~German Proverb
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Learn a new language and get a new soul. ~Czech Proverb
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God helps those who help themselves. ~English Proverb
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God gives the nuts, but he doesn't crack them. ~German Proverb
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Fall seven times, stand up eight. ~Japanese Proverb
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All good things must come to an end. ~English Proverb
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You can trust the promise of this opening. Unfurl yourself into the grace of beginning. That is at one with your life's desire. ~John O'Donohue
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As spokesman for Lipitor, I have been an advocate of preventive medicine in addition to my work with the Jarvik 2000 Heart, which has rescued people from death and sustained a patient with a normal, mobile lifestyle for seven and a half years; the longest in the world. ~Robert Jarvik
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A quiet conscience sleeps in thunder. ~English Proverb
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Offers for me to play dances, society parties, even churches, were now coming in regularly. For most dates I was paid the sum of one dollar per hour, and they always tipped me at the end of the night. ~Mary Lou Williams
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The rose has thorns only for those who would gather it. ~Chinese Proverb
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Now, being in Africa, I was hungry for more of it, the changes of the seasons, the rains with no need to travel, the discomforts that you paid to make it real, the names of the trees, of the small animals, and all the birds, to know the language and have time to be in it and to move slowly. ~Ernest Hemingway
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I would like, if I can, to broaden the possibilities of the musical theater. I think there is a better "Oklahoma!" someplace, a better "West Side Story." And I would like to be mixed up in it. ~Richard Rodgers
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